What You Could Buy With $44 Billion.

$9.2 billion - One brand-new Columbia-class, nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine
$6.7 billion - Buckingham Palace
$5.8 billion - Chicago Bears
$4.7 billion - 10 shares of Berkshire Hathaway Class A stock
$4.1 billion - Chicago Bulls
$3.8 billion - Chicago Cubs
$2.0 billion - Eiffel Tower
$2.0 billion - 1,000 Tomahawk cruise missiles
$1.5 billion - Chicago Blackhawks
$1.4 billion - [i]Wonder of the Seas[/i] - the world's largest cruiseship
$1.2 billion - The Sears Tower (yeah, I know, it's technically the "Willis" Tower now)
$1.0 billion - DisneyWorld and Disneyland
$0.6 billion - Naming rights for the sports arenas in Miami and Los Angeles

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Or you could do what Elon Musk did and buy Twitter and run it into the ground.